Operation Wildflower Mobi
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Articles
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
Home Home » GENERA Q-S » Struthiola » Struthiola leptantha
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 10,642
Total number of hits on all images: 5,332,993

Struthiola leptantha

Struthiola leptantha
Previous Previous
Image 14 of 24  
Next Next
Image 16 of 24  
  • Struthiola ciliata pink tubes, yellow scales
  • Struthiola ciliata striped tubes
  • Struthiola confusa or jakkalsgare
  • Struthiola dodecandra
  • Struthiola dodecandra flowers
  • Struthiola dodecandra leaves
  • Struthiola eckloniana
  • Struthiola eckloniana stems and leaves
  • Struthiola leptantha
  • Struthiola myrsinites
  • Struthiola myrsinites
  • Struthiola myrsinites blooming profusely
  • Struthiola striata
  • Struthiola striata, one of the roemenaggies
  • Struthiola tomentosa
  • Struthiola tomentosa flower
  • Struthiola tomentosa hairy leaves

Image information

Description

Struthiola leptantha, another species commonly known as roemenaggie, is a shrub that grows to 1 m along the west coast from the Cape Peninsula to the Richtersveld. This specimen was photographed in Namaqualand south of Springbok during August.

The branches are slender and sometimes hairy. The leaves are opposite, narrowly elliptic to oblong and hairy when young. The flowers are cream coloured, occasionally reddish; scented at night. They grow stalkless in upper leaf axils in long spikes. The calyx tubes are silky and slender. At the flower mouth the four sepals are reflexed, the eight fleshy petals or petal scales are spreading among notable hairs. There are four stamens inside the tube. The anthers are oblong, the stigma feathery. Flowering happens during winter and to midspring.

The habitat of the plant is stony slopes in sandy soil (Manning, 2009; iSpot; JSTOR).

Hits
421
Photographer
Judd Kirkel
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery